Jazz notes: interviews across the generations
This volume presents the greatest musicians in the history of jazz through interviews with artists such as Art Tatum, Maynard Ferguson, Dizzy Gillespie, and Dave Brubeck, along with almost 20 other jazz greats. The interviews range from the 1970s to the present day and are followed by a concluding section that provides perspective from current artists. Many African American jazz musicians endured difficult and demeaning conditions while on the road in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, and their memo…
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- Full title :Jazz notes : interviews across the generations / Sanford Josephson.
Summary
This volume presents the greatest musicians in the history of jazz through interviews with artists such as Art Tatum, Maynard Ferguson, Dizzy Gillespie, and Dave Brubeck, along with almost 20 other jazz greats. The interviews range from the 1970s to the present day and are followed by a concluding section that provides perspective from current artists. Many African American jazz musicians endured difficult and demeaning conditions while on the road in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, and their memories of these experiences are a bittersweet counterpoint to remembered triumphs.
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- Publication Date:©2009.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Praeger/ABC-CLIO
- Place of Publication:Santa Barbara, Calif
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2009.
Notes
Includes index.
The Physical Object
- Description:xii, 207 pages ; : 25 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780313357008, 0313357005, 9780313357015, 0313357013
- oclc:ocn314381202
- LC Classification:ML394
- Dewey Decimal:781.65092/273
Table of Contents
Seeing Stardust : "Hoagy" Carmichael -- The joint is jumpin' : Thomas "Fats" Waller -- No joke : Giuseppe "Joe" Venuti -- One o'clock jump : William "Count" Basie -- Melody man : Jonah Jones -- God is in the house : Art Tatum -- Road warriors : Earle Warren, Howard McGhee, and Milt Hinton -- The happy singer : Helen Humes -- The religion of bebop : John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie -- Classical jazz : George Shearing -- Take five : Dave Brubeck -- Duke's man : Norris Turney -- Singing the chords : Jon Hendricks -- Traveling with King Louis : Arvell Shaw -- Beyond the big bands : Gerry Mulligan -- Musical chameleon : Dick Hyman -- Flying high : Maynard Ferguson -- Growing up with jazz : Stanley Cowell -- Horn of emotion : David Sanborn -- Jazz ambassador : Billy Taylor.
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